Boogaloo Joe Jones - Legends Of Acid Jazz Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol 2

Styles: Soul-Jazz, Funk
Year: 1970
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:34
Size: 172,5 MB
Art: Front

(7:20) 1. No Way
(4:52) 2. If You Were Mine
(6:02) 3. Georgia On My Mind
(7:12) 4. Sunshine Alley
(4:05) 5. I'll Be There
(6:49) 6. Holdin' Back
(5:37) 7. Ain't No Sunshine
(6:15) 8. I Feel The Earth Move
(7:02) 9. Fadin'
(7:06) 10. What It Is
(5:51) 11. Let Them Talk
(6:16) 12. Inside Job

A CD reissue that combines Jones' fifth and sixth Prestige LPs, Noway! (1970) and What It Is (1971), onto one disc. Grover Washington, Jr. (tenor sax) and Bernard Purdie (drums) are the key accompanists on both sessions. Noway! is a set of pretty funky early-1970s soul-jazz, though the covers of fairly straight pop numbers ("Georgia on My Mind," the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There") are kind of undistinguished. Better are the originals "No Way" and "Holdin' Back" (by Jones) and "Sunshine Alley" (by organist Butch Cornell), which have a more convincing groove. "No Way" is the toughest, with funk guitar lines betraying some influence from James Brown; "Holdin' Back" sounds a bit like a jazzy instrumental treatment of the kind of songs Marvin Gaye used to record in his early Motown days. Using the same personnel, Jones offers more good-natured funk-soul-jazz on What It Is. After getting a couple of contemporary pop covers (of Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" and Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move") out of the way, it's mostly Jones originals. On his slower moments, as in "Fadin'" and Sonny Thompson's "Let Them Talk," he shows the influence of straight jazz players such as Wes Montgomery; "What It Is" and "Inside Job" are more cut-to-the-chase funk riffs. Jones has his cult following, but as soul-jazz goes, this is kind of run-of-the-mill: good for background, but not captivating foreground listening.~ Richie Unterberger https://www.allmusic.com/album/legends-of-acid-jazz-vol-2-mw0000047953

Legends Of Acid Jazz: Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol 2

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Boogaloo Joe Jones - My Fire

Styles: Guitar Jazz
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 33:53
Size: 77,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:57)  1. Light My Fire
(7:06)  2. For Big Hal
(5:26)  3. St James Infirmary
(3:54)  4. Take All
(7:27)  5. Time After Time
(6:00)  6. Ivan The Terrible

Jones made his solo debut as Joe Jones on Prestige Records in 1967, but earned the name "Boogaloo Joe" following a 1969 record of that title. The nickname was meant to distinguish him from the other people with similar names in the music business, such as R&B singer Joe Jones, jazz drummers "Papa Jo" Jones and Philly Joe Jones, and the Joe Jones of the Fluxus movement. Later, he turned to billing himself as Ivan "Boogaloo Joe" Jones. Jones recorded several albums in a soul-jazz vein for Prestige between 1966 and 1978. In addition to leading his own group for recording purposes, Ivan Jones recorded with Richard "Groove" Holmes, Houston Person, Harold Mabern, Wild Bill Davis and, most notably, Willis Jackson, Rusty Bryant, Charles Earland, and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie are among the sidemen also featured on Jones' albums. His sound and style clearly derived from the blues, but it was a solid understanding of rock that Jones brought to his style of jazz. He was influenced most by Tal Farlow and Billy Butler, but gravitated toward the rhythm and blues-styled jazz Butler was popularizing with organist Bill Doggett's combo. Jones' sound and style stayed remarkably consistent during his recording career. His twangy tone coupled catchy chordal vamps[3] with astonishing rapid-fire single-note playing. He could handle familiar pop covers ("Light My Fire", "Have You Never Been Mellow") and ballads. But he really excelled in the jazz-funk groove and proved himself a first-rate blues player. Jones has lived in South New Jersey most of his life and mostly worked in and around the Atlantic City area with chitlin circuit heroes like Wild Bill Davis, Willis Jackson and Charlie Ventura. Jones, who never won the notice of critics or great support from fans during his career, is finding new life on CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogaloo_Joe_Jones

Personnel:  Joe Jones - guitar;  Harold Mabern - piano;  Peck Morrison - bass;  Bill English - drums;  Richie "Pablo" Landrum - congas

My Fire

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Boogaloo Joe Jones - No Way!

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:04
Size: 82.6 MB
Styles: Soul-Jazz, Funk
Year: 1970/1998
Art: Front

[7:16] 1. No Way
[4:49] 2. If You Were Mine
[5:59] 3. Georgia On My Mind
[7:09] 4. Sunshine Alley
[4:01] 5. I'll Be There
[6:48] 6. Holdin' Back

Grover Washington, Jr. (tenor sax) and Bernard Purdie (drums) are the key accompanists on a set of pretty funky early-'70s soul-jazz. The covers of fairly straight pop numbers ("Georgia on My Mind," the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There") are kind of undistinguished. Better are the originals "No Way" and "Holdin' Back" (by Jones) and "Sunshine Alley" (by organist Butch Cornell), which have a more convincing groove. "No Way" is the toughest, with funk guitar lines betraying some influence from James Brown; "Holdin' Back" sounds a bit like a jazzy instrumental treatment of the kind of songs Marvin Gaye used to record in his early Motown days. This has been combined with his subsequent album, 1971's What It Is, on the single-disc CD reissue Legends of Acid Jazz: Boogaloo Joe Jones, Vol. 2. ~Richie Unterberger

No Way!

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Boogaloo Joe Jones - Right On Brother

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 41:24

Size: 94.8 MB

Styles: Jazz/Funk/Soul

Year: 1970/2008

Art: Front

[5:39] 1. Right On

[7:04] 2. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

[6:05] 3. Poppin'

[6:45] 4. Someday We'll Be Together

[5:04] 5. Brown Bag

[5:23] 6. Let It Be Me

[3:00] 7. Right On

[2:20] 8. Someday We'll Be Together

Bass – Jimmy Lewis; Drums – Bernard Purdie; Guitar – Boogaloo Joe Jones; Organ – Charlie Earland; Saxophone – Rusty Bryant.

A fantastic album of funky jazz guitar – by one of the best players in the genre! This is Ivan's first truly sublime album – a set that showed the world that he was easily one of the greatest jazz guitarists of his generation – able to spin out single-note jams with a speed and dexterity that few others could match! The groove here is totally great and very righteous – heavy drums from Bernard Purdie, wailing organ from Charles Earland, and saxophone from Rusty Bryant – all cooking together in the best early 70s Prestige jazz funk mode! Titles include "Right On", "Brown Bag", "Things Ain't What They Used To Be", and "Poppin".

Right On Brother       

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